“The FBI recommended that all owners of consumer-grade routers, switches, and network-attached storage devices reboot their devices. While the advice likely disrupted VPNFilter’s advance and bought infected users time, it may also have created the mistaken belief that rebooting alone was enough to fully remove VPNFilter from infected devices.”
“Nothing can be done to make the Wi-Fi naming wit change his or her alarming network name, [Saginaw Township Police Chief Donald] Pussehl said: it’s speech that’s protected under the First Amendment.”
“The attacks work because of weaknesses built into the LTE standard itself. The most crucial weakness is a form of encryption that doesn’t protect the integrity of the data.”
“Swann is owned by the Infinova Group, a US-based security camera specialist with offices across the globe.”
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44628399
“The Messages app does not even show users that files have been sent; many just find out after they get a response from the recipient of the random photos sent to them.”
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/7/2/17528076/samsung-phones-text-rcs-update-messages
“The consent form isn’t exactly clear that it would allow humans — and not just computers — to read your emails.”
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/2/17527972/gmail-app-developers-full-email-access
“SiiP’s database will include samples from YouTube, Facebook, publicly recorded conversations, voice-over-internet-protocol recordings, and other sources where individuals might not realize that their voices are being turned into biometric voice prints.”
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/06/25/interpol-voice-identification-database/
“This isn’t even the first time five police cameras all conveniently malfunctioned at a critical time.”
“In the hands of government surveillance programs and law enforcement agencies, there’s simply no way that face recognition software will be not used to harm citizens.”
“Republicans are back on their feet, cheering the very Big Government they despised a generation ago.”
Read more: https://bonnerandpartners.com/do-you-live-next-to-one-of-these-spy-hubs/